Peri-portal fibrosis of the liver due to natural or experimental infection with Schistosoma mansoni occurs in the Kenyan baboon

Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology

Volumn 92, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 187-193

  Njenga, M N ^a   Farah, I O ^a   Muchemi, G K ^a   Nyindo, M ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PRIMATE RESEARCH   (Kenya)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ASCITES; BABOON; BILE DUCT; CERCARIA; CHIMPANZEE; COLLAGEN SYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL INFECTION; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FIBROBLAST; GRANULOMATOUS INFLAMMATION; HYPERPLASIA; LIVER FIBROSIS; NONHUMAN; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PORTAL VEIN; PORTOCAVAL SHUNT; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SCHISTOSOMIASIS;

ANIMALS; KENYA; LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS, EXPERIMENTAL; MALE; MONKEY DISEASES; PAPIO; SCHISTOSOMIASIS MANSONI;

ANIMALIA; MURINAE; PAN (APE); PAN TROGLODYTES; PAPIO; PAPIO ANUBIS; PAPIO CYNOCEPHALUS; PAPIO HAMADRYAS; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SCHISTOSOMIASIS MANSONI; TREMATODA;

EID: 0031912670     PISSN: 00034983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00034989860030     Document Type: Article

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